A new paradigm for being a conscious being here and now on beautiful Planet Earth. A cross between "synthesis", "renaissance", "cryogenics" and "benthic"..."a flowering of creativity that's extremely cool and very deep." And the name of a yahoo e-group I started in 2002, now with around 1800 members, mostly friends of mine. Cheers Jeff

I realize that this posting might seem a bit corny or silly, a bit presumptious that anyone wants to see pictures of me, but what the heck. I do feel a lot of good vibes this Christmas...lots of nice people, a very wonderful place to be, lots of support, LOTS to be thankful for.

In another week or so I'll be wrapping up my current visit to Halls Gap, an amazingly nice place who has essentially 'adopted' me over the past few months. After having spent over 12 years traveling around Australia, I would have to say that 'Budja Budja', the indigenous name for this area, is by far one of if not THE nicest place to live in this whole country, in terms of its unique beauty and power, relatively remote location yet accessibility, it's indigenous heritage that's very much alive and well, and the truly lovely people who live here.

From here I'll journey down to Tasmania, to carry on the 'good fight' there, with plans to connect with who is regarded to be the best whale and dolphin rescue team in the southern hemisphere, as well as to learn about the recent mining debacle that has just been unleased in the Tarkine, one of Tasmania's most remote and currently undistrupted wilderness areas. Environmental minister Tony Burke...whose real title should be 'Minister of Extraction'...has just given the green-light to Venture Mining to rape and pillage the Tarkine for iron compounds and to do OPEN-CUT MINING FOR COAL. Open-cut mining in Tasmania is no less diabolical of a violation of any kind of true ecological sensibility than is the dredging of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area and the dredging of a major humpback whale nursery off James Price Point near Broome...ALL of these heinous atrocities have been given the go-ahead by Burke and company.

These are NOT nice 'Christmas presents' for Australia, but are reality just the same.

More on this in another posting.

I also hope to catch up with Liesbet, my partner of five years, who has been in Tasmania for a couple weeks now, doing some wwoofing and tramping on her own. We've been 'doing our own things' for a few months, and she feels a need to 'spread her wings' and 'cryo' on her own, all of which are fully essential for an evolving dolphin-goddess. Mother Earth and the whales and dolphins in particular, however, are calling to us now more than ever to continue our 'ultimate creative partnership' to 'fight the good fight.'

All along I've told Liesbet that I fully support her in whatever she feels she needs to do, but we must bear in mind that this is NOT the world of ten, or five, or even two years ago. With all the EXTREMELY heavy stuff happening in the world, I honestly don't know how much longer ANY of us really has. Anyone who thinks that 'business as usual' is ok is totally out of touch with reality. Moreover, birds, butterflies and dolphins have to have a healthy Mother Earth to live on. She is under heavier and heavier attack as each day goes by. My love for her is the driving force behind my all-out activism and information awareness, the unending battle against apathy, indifference, denial and the unquestioned but highly dysfunctional beliefs and assumptions of our current mentality. I truly hope that Liesbet, who is one of the most spirutually beautiful and innately talented people I know, will continue to help me with the work and challenges before us, as a crew member of Mothership Earth, not just a passenger.

We've just been invited back to Arne 'Balarni' Erickson's place on Flinders Island, where we lived for four amazing months last year, in remote non-electric semi-permaculture, and I truly hope that Liesbet will join me, so that we can conduct our own 'sacred pow-wow' in our Mother Earth Temple, which is in great need of renovation, raise the Rainbow Djed pillar once again in honour of the 'new creation', and jam in the kiva, re-activating and re-kindling the power of Mother Earth and Father Sky, in honour of the 'people of one heart' and the immense creativity that each of us possesses, the 'ultimate technology' that we are ALL being called on to bring on-line NOW.

I wish each and everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Nu Year, 'nu' being the Greek letter signifying 'frequency'...let us make a fantastic effort to raise the frequency of our own vibrations to the highest possible levels, in harmony with the greatest good for all life on Mothership Earth.

And let us all make a concerted effort to 'live simply so that others may simply live.